Episodes We Love: Do I Follow My Head Or My Heart?

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Cheryl and Steve are no longer dishing out new advice, but we're listening back to episodes we love every week. This episode was originally released November 6, 2015.

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The Sugars get a letter from a young woman who has fallen head over heels in love. She and her boyfriend only met a month ago, but they are already in deep. Everything seems perfect, and yet the letter writer can't help but wonder if the traumas of her new love's past are hiding somewhere under the surface, threatening to resurface.

In this episode, the Sugars do something new — and get the letter writer on the phone to speak with her directly about her fears.

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1:06.5	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
1:11.7	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
1:13.4	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
1:16.6	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
1:21.2	Oh, dear song, won't you please?
1:28.3	Share some little sweet days with me. Dear sugars, I'm a 34-year-old woman who has never been married, but has had a number of long-term
1:52.0	relationships. All of my relationships have been safe, meaning the men were pretty conventional,
1:57.5	stable, and came from good backgrounds. I also come from a very good background. I had an
2:03.1	idyllic childhood with almost no big trauma to speak of. My parents are still married, and I see them often.
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